“…One of the common features of all the aforementionned references is exploiting some interesting properties of the Algebraic Riccati Equation (ARE) associated with a linear-quadratic problem. This includes the mirror effect as in [26], the α-stability approach for continuous time [5], the ρ-stability for discrete time [10] and the introduction of some parameters in the ARE as in [27,4,6]. Most of the proposed methods deal with a multiple step procedure where in each step, one real pole or a pair of complex poles are shifted to a desired location.…”